There have been some talks about the high number of pirates in Australia, having the government worried about what to do in response to the piracy activity. Earlier this year, ...
July 28, 2014 at 9:31 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Singapore is said to have its Law Ministry cooking up a law since April, similar to what is currently in effect in the UK, which will amend the Copyright Act and force ISPs to ...
July 9, 2014 at 3:37 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Cybercriminals are targeting users with an email that looks like a copyright warning from popular music and movie studios, but instead has an attached Trojan designed to ...
July 9, 2014 at 6:10 am by Michael Hatamoto
A new draft law being submitted for public consultation in Switzerland will allow personal downloading to remain legal but uploading infringing content via BitTorrent will be ...
July 2, 2014 at 10:43 am by Ryan Martin
Big game publishers have promised to help YouTube users after a new automated anti-theft system from Google ran amok. Thousands of “Lets Play” YouTube videos from ...
December 16, 2013 at 9:36 am by Peter Edward
TorrentFreak reports that several members of the European Parliament have started a coordinated platform to urge the European Commission to update its outdated policy on ...
November 10, 2013 at 1:19 pm by Ryan Martin
Earlier this month torrent indexing site IsoHunt was forced to shut down after its owned Gary Fung faced a lawsuit from the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) which ...
October 30, 2013 at 10:33 am by Ryan Martin
isoHunt is finally shutting down after seven years of lawsuits. The website is not being shutdown because of Government forcing, but rather a settlement offer that Gary Fung ...
October 18, 2013 at 9:18 am by Shane Blume
By now most of us know that the DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) takedown service has been abused by companies and business interests. In the past we’ve seen ...
October 14, 2013 at 11:03 am by Ryan Martin
TorrentFreak reports that torrent site H33T has gone offline after encountering legal issues with its domain name registration. The domain name registrar for H33T removed all ...
September 8, 2013 at 11:41 am by Ryan Martin
We already brought you news of Russia’s SOPA-like legislation which is still on track to pass and come into effect by August. Now a new report by TorrentFreak suggests ...
July 11, 2013 at 1:54 pm by Ryan Martin
Taiwan were the most recent country to reject SOPA-like legislation and you would of thought governments over the world would have learnt from the public outcry against ...
June 23, 2013 at 3:54 pm by Ryan Martin
According to a report by TechDirt there has been public outcry in Taiwan over the government’s proposed copyright bill. Apparently during May the Taiwanese government ...
June 21, 2013 at 5:30 pm by Ryan Martin
Megaupload Limited was a fairly large website, which provided a single service, cloud storage. Kim Dotcom founded the website in 2005, active for almost seven years before the ...
June 17, 2013 at 10:54 am by Shane Blume
If you’ve crossed the border from Northern Ireland to Ireland in the past you would of found that Ireland’s ISPs didn’t block the Pirate Bay like Northern ...
June 15, 2013 at 11:54 am by Ryan Martin
